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Support Youth, Other Programs with NSSA-NSCA Donations

If you’re a supporter of NSSA-NSCA and our various programs and want to offer financial support, we want you to know how to do so.

As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, the National Skeet Shooting Association (of which the NSSA, NSCA, and National Shooting Complex are divisions) is eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions. While you may choose to make a general donation to the nonprofit corporation or to either association, you may also specify how your contribution is to be earmarked, such as for the NSCA USA Sporting Clays Team, to the youth shooting program, NSSA-NSCA Hall of Fame and Museum, scholarship program, or any other specific use.

If you’d like to support the future of skeet and sporting clays through a donation to NSSA-NSCA, here are some ways you can do it:

  • Make an online donation with our form.
  • Mail a check to us at 5931 Roft Rd., San Antonio, TX 78253. Specify any fund or purpose you wish your donation to be used for.
  • For a non-cash donation, legacy gift, or to discuss other donations, contact Steve Scales, Finance Director, at sscales@nssa-nsca.com or 210-688-3371 ext. 210.

The National Skeet Shooting Association is a 501(c)(3) corporation as determined by the United States Internal Revenue Service. In return for your donation no goods or services are received. Therefore, your entire gift qualifies as a charitable donation.

The NSSA recommends that you consult with a tax professional in your state to determine the extent to which your gift may qualify for tax deduction at the state and local level.

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Contribute Your Memories to NSSA-NSCA-NSC History

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NSSA-NSCA is compiling a written and pictorial history of the sports, the associations, and the National Shooting Complex to preserve the memories and insights of our longtime members who recall earlier days, events, and people that contributed to what the associations are today. Former longtime Executive Director Mike Hampton, Sr. has agreed to lead the effort to compile and organize the facts and materials and work alongside a professional writer to turn it into a book.

While the NSSA-NSCA Museum collects the artifacts that are instrumental to our history, nowhere is there a written history of how skeet and sporting clays were developed, how NSSA and NSCA came to be, who the leaders were who got us to this point, who the top shooters were along the way, and how disjointed parcels of land were assembled into the National Shooting Complex.

To bring this project to fruition, we need your help. We need to hear everything you know about our sports’ history, especially sporting clays. Were you shooting sporting clays when it first came to the U.S. in the early 1980s? If so, what clubs were hosting the big shoots, and what were the first sporting clays clubs in your part of the country? Were you a part of the U.S. sporting clays organizations that preceded NSCA? If so, we need to hear about them. While we have a good grasp on the sport since about 1990, we need to know much more about the decade of the 1980s.

Photos are also important. We would love to see your photos from years past. The older ones will no doubt be prints from film rather than digital, but a good scan (at the highest possible resolution) will work. When you send photos, please be sure to include your permission to use them and how you or another photographer should be credited.

If you can help with information or materials for this important project, we want to hear from you. Contact Mike Hampton Sr. at mikesrhampton@gmail.com. Please watch future issues of Clay Target Nation and “Target Talk” for updates on the project and what we’re looking for.